How could you call Megadeth not metal? Wake up Dead and Peace Sells are metal ANTHEMS. If anything a very, very large majority of today's metal all sound the same. I tried Lamb of God once, I couldn't tell when one song started and when the last ended. It's one thing to have a sound unique to a band, it's a whole other deal when all of your songs are about the same thing *coughdragonforcecough*
Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden were the pioneers of the heavy metal genre. You can't top that.